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cdrtools & Romeo

Romeo is a CD format that can be created using Adaptec's Easy CD Pro '95. It is similar to Joliet in that it allows 128 character filenames and characters that ISO9660 does not. I use this for CDs of MP3s. Most operating systems can read this format.

Unfortunately, Adaptec's Easy CD Pro '95 is the only commercial program I know of that can create CDs in this format. Since Easy CD Pro '95 is no longer supported, this is a problem. One rainy day and with some advice from its author (Joerg Schilling), I decided to hack mkisofs from cdrtools to support Romeo format CDs. To my surprise, I succeeded.

Once patched, mkisofs supports a new option - "--romeo" - to produce a Romeo format CD image.

There are some issues with these patches:

cdrtools 2.01.1

cdrtools-2.01.1-9.FC4-romeo.diff is a diff against Fedora Core 4's patched cdtools. It may work with vanilla cdrtools 2.01.1.

cdrtools 2.01

cdrtools-2.01-romeo-20041105.diff
cdrtools home page

Fedora Core 3 binaries:

Fedora Core 2 sources:

cdrtools 2.00.3

I am unlikely to do any further work on my patch for this version.

cdrtools-2.00.3-romeo-20040408.diff
cdrtools home page

Redhat 8.0 binaries:

Redhat 8.0 sources:

cdrtools 1.10

I am unlikely to do any further work on my patch for this version.

cdrtools-1.10a18-romeo-20010429.diff (applies fine to cdrtools 1.10 too)
cdrtools 1.10 home page

Redhat 8.0 binaries:

Redhat 8.0 sources:

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